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STARKVILLE — Homeowner pre-registration exceeded the required threshold in a third area of the city of Starkville this week, helping it qualify for C Spire’s 1 Gbps (gigabit per second) fiber to the home Internet service and related digital TV and home phone services. Starkville’s Cotton District fiberhood, which includes downtown and the central business district, reached its 45 percent ...

RIDGELAND — C Spire is making it easier and more convenient for residents in nine Mississippi cities to sign up for the company’s 1 Gbps fiber to the home Internet service by expanding pre-registration methods for the next generation technology. The company, which launched customized, pre-registration web sites for residents in the cities of Batesville, Clinton, Corinth, Hattiesburg, Horn Lake, ...

As part of C Spire’s competition to select the first city in the Fiber to the Home project, the Ridgeland-based telecommunication firm received official information requests from 30 Mississippi communities. C Spire plans to announce the finalists in the first phase on Nov. 4. Some communities also provided videos as part of their presentations. Our favorites as most-creative are Oxford and ...

A Mississippi State University professor has found a unique way to remove fiber from corn and has filed for a patent for the process called Elusieve. Dr. Radhakrishnan Srinivasan of the MSU Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering invented Elusieve with Dr. Vijay Singh of the University of Illinois. The process is valuable for efficiency in producing ethanol and feeding ...